Woman Gets Prison For Veterans Benefits Fraud
TBO.com
Published: April 2, 2009
A Palmetto woman who pleaded guilty to cashing veterans benefit checks in the name of her boyfriend's dead mother was sentenced today to five months in prison and five months of house arrest.
Lynn Weber, 55, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew to pay $62,960 in restitution.
A woman named Eleanor Edwards was the intended recipient of the checks from the Veterans Administration Dependency and Indemnity Compensation program, which is paid to eligible surviving spouses of veterans who have not remarried, according to court documents.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Tampa woman gets jail over VA benefit fraud
This makes my blood boil! This is not a matter of a widow of a veteran fighting to have a claim honored but a woman with the nerve to take money from the VA after a widow had died. She had nothing to do with the disabled veteran that was willing to die for this country and nothing to do with the life of the wife at his side. She just must have decided that she didn't need to earn any of the money she was taking without a clue of what kind of price others paid. In a time when there are claims tied up in a backlog, claims denied and veterans suffer, here we have someone making a living off of the legacy of a veteran!
It's not a first. I'm a 100% disabled veteran. And a marred 27 year old Texas lady is under investigation by an OIG VA detective for forging my name, claiming to have lived at my home, lying about being a minor and claims that I adopted her as a minor. She has had acces through the VA to all my personal info and managed to steal at least $80,000 in Ch35 benefits normally only used bya veteran's dependents.
ReplyDeleteI have no dependents, not married and have never met this lady. She's been using these benefits since 2005. According to the VA, her privacy is being protected and my records are concealed from me. The only thing this woman had to present was a single birth certificate stating that she was born in the state where I presently live (and all my private info like dates of active duty and so forth). The key here is that she was born in 1982 while I was in the Navy in Washington State, married and with no kids. Military vets are so vulnerable to all sorts of FRAUD by selfish people!!
I am so sorry Travelvet~
ReplyDeletePeople like this are lower than dirt. They feel they can just take what they did not earn and if that wasn't bad enough, the veterans earned it, risked their lives, but end up having to fight even harder than the frauds do to get it......makes no sense at all.